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Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron (udgave 2011)

af Spencer Kansa (Forfatter)

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In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene. Born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, in 1922, Cameron's uniqueness and talent as a natural born artist was evident to those around her early on in life. During World War 2 she served in the Women's Navy, and worked in Washington as an aide to the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. But it was after the War that her life really took off, when she met her husband Jack Parsons. By day Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist, but by night he was Master of the Agape Lodge, a fraternal magickal order, whose head was the most famous magus of the 20th century Aleister Crowley. Gradually, over the course of their marriage, Parsons initiated Cameron into the occult sciences, and the biography offers a fresh perspective on her role in the infamous Babalon Working magick rituals Parsons conducted with the future founder of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard. Following Parsons death in 1952 from a chemical explosion, Cameron inherited her husband's magickal mantle and embarked on a lifelong spiritual quest, a journey reflected in the otherworldly images she depicted, many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Cameron became a celebrated personality in California's underground art world and film scene. In 1954 she starred in Kenneth Anger's visual masterwork, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome', stealing the show from her co-star Anais Nin. The budding filmmaker Curtis Harrington was so taken with Cameron, he made a film study dedicated to her artwork entitled, The Wormwood Star'. He then brought Cameron's powerful and mysterious presence to bear on his evocative noir thriller, Night Tide', casting her alongside a young Dennis Hopper. Cameron was an inspirational figure to the many artists and poets that congregated around Wallace Berman's Semina scene, and in 1957 Berman's show at the Ferus Gallery was shut down by LA's vice squad, due to the sexually charged nature of one of her drawings. Undaunted, she continued to carve a unique and brilliant path as an artist. A retrospective of Cameron's work, entitled The Pearl Of Reprisal', was held at LA's Barnsdall Art Park in 1989, and after her death some of her most admired pieces were included in the Reflections Of A New Aeon Exhibition' at the Eleven Seven Gallery in Long Beach, California. Cameron's famous Peyote Vision drawing made its way into the Beat Culture And The New America retrospective held at the Whitney Museum in 1995. And in 2006, a profile of her work was featured in the critically lauded Semina Culture Exhibition. The following year an exhibition of her sketches and drawings was held at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York. With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.… (mere)
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Titel:Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron
Forfattere:Spencer Kansa (Forfatter)
Info:Mandrake (2011), Edition: 1st, 282 pages
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Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron af Spencer Kansa

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Wormwood Star is a biography of Marjorie Cameron, often known as Cameron. The biography follows her life from a small-town girl to Navy WAVE in World War 2, to a devotee of Thelema, and from her perspective an incarnation of the Goddess Babalon. An absolutely fascinating topic about an often overlooked figure in occultism.

Spencer Kansa went out of his way to research many hard to find aspects which included interviews with old friends and visiting the locales that Cameron haunted. There is certainly a great amount of biographical research that went into this book and having read reviews of previous editions I was pleased to see "2020 Revised Edition" printed on the cover.

However a few issues magicians have had with this text do remain, notably some technical mistakes when talking about Thelema. For example, Kansa refers to the 5=6 degree, the mid-point of the A.'. A.'., as the final and ultimate stage. While it is the last stage before letting your HGA take the wheel, there are several stages after in the system. Other small and technical errors regarding Thelema and magick in general do remain. While these errors are of no consequence and this critique pedantic to the average reader, as someone born and raised around magick, I find them personally pertinent having myself struggled for accurate representation in media.

If such topics were a side-note in the biography, this would be even less of an issue. However, Cameron's identity to both herself and those she inspired is intimately entwined with Thelema, Parsons, and by extension Crowley. This being the reason that many pick up the book makes these errors all the more important to address.

Aside from this, Kansa's easy on the eyes writing style made for an enjoyable read overall. I will cut him some slack as from an outsider perspective the central topics of her life are difficult and take some serious study to even begin forming an idea of. Cameron presents many difficulties to the biographer, making accurate presentation all the more important.

NOTE: This review was changed after a conversation with the author. I am also removing my star rating from this review completely and adding this note for transparency.
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In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene. Born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, in 1922, Cameron's uniqueness and talent as a natural born artist was evident to those around her early on in life. During World War 2 she served in the Women's Navy, and worked in Washington as an aide to the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. But it was after the War that her life really took off, when she met her husband Jack Parsons. By day Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist, but by night he was Master of the Agape Lodge, a fraternal magickal order, whose head was the most famous magus of the 20th century Aleister Crowley. Gradually, over the course of their marriage, Parsons initiated Cameron into the occult sciences, and the biography offers a fresh perspective on her role in the infamous Babalon Working magick rituals Parsons conducted with the future founder of Scientology, L Ron Hubbard. Following Parsons death in 1952 from a chemical explosion, Cameron inherited her husband's magickal mantle and embarked on a lifelong spiritual quest, a journey reflected in the otherworldly images she depicted, many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Cameron became a celebrated personality in California's underground art world and film scene. In 1954 she starred in Kenneth Anger's visual masterwork, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome', stealing the show from her co-star Anais Nin. The budding filmmaker Curtis Harrington was so taken with Cameron, he made a film study dedicated to her artwork entitled, The Wormwood Star'. He then brought Cameron's powerful and mysterious presence to bear on his evocative noir thriller, Night Tide', casting her alongside a young Dennis Hopper. Cameron was an inspirational figure to the many artists and poets that congregated around Wallace Berman's Semina scene, and in 1957 Berman's show at the Ferus Gallery was shut down by LA's vice squad, due to the sexually charged nature of one of her drawings. Undaunted, she continued to carve a unique and brilliant path as an artist. A retrospective of Cameron's work, entitled The Pearl Of Reprisal', was held at LA's Barnsdall Art Park in 1989, and after her death some of her most admired pieces were included in the Reflections Of A New Aeon Exhibition' at the Eleven Seven Gallery in Long Beach, California. Cameron's famous Peyote Vision drawing made its way into the Beat Culture And The New America retrospective held at the Whitney Museum in 1995. And in 2006, a profile of her work was featured in the critically lauded Semina Culture Exhibition. The following year an exhibition of her sketches and drawings was held at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York. With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.

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